Influxdb doesn't start on CentOS

[Swann Croiset]

influxdb-0.9.2-1.x86_64

Puppet error:
Error: Could not start Service[influxdb]: Execution of '/sbin/service influxdb start' returned 1:
Error: /Stage[main]/Influxdb::Service/Service[influxdb]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[influxdb]: Execution of '/sbin/service influxdb start' returned 1:

Try manually:
/sbin/service influxdb start
Starting the process influxd [ OK ]
This account is currently not available.
influxd process failed to start [ FAILED ]

grep influx /etc/passwd
influxdb:x:497:497::/home/influxdb:/sbin/nologin

Work arrounds:
1/ modify the init script to add a shell option for the command 'su'
su $USER -s /bin/bash -c "nohup $daemon -pidfile $pidfile -config $config $INFLUXD_OPTS >>$STDOUT 2>>$STDERR &"

2/ configure a shell for influxdb user

3/ upgrade to influxdb-0.9.3 which set the shell /bin/bash for the user

[Swann Croiset (swann-w)]

never mind, this is the manifest setup_influxdir.pp which set the shell to /sbin/nologin.

the package heka 0.9.2 set /bin/bash

[Simon Pasquier (simon-pasquier)]

I vote for option 1. Note that there is a bug in InfluxDB v0.9.3 where influxd runs as root on CentOS. We should consider patching the init script for this bug too when we switch to v0.9.3.

[1] https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/3803

[Swann Croiset (swann-w)]

the pull request on influxdb side https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/3868

[Swann Croiset (swann-w)]

init script has been merged on infuxdb, the fix will available in the next release v0.9.4